Absentee Ballots Available For Vote

Union News Notes

June 04, 1997

Absentee ballots are available at town hall for next Wednesday's referendum on the proposed $1.53 million town budget.

The referendum was set after opponents of a proposed $1 million town hall building submitted a petition with enough signatures to require the vote. Opponents of the new town hall favored a smaller facility for the town's part-time government and note that $155,226 of the $219,410 increase in spending called for in the 1997-98 budget is for the town hall building.

Participants at a town meeting in April voted 92-85 to appropriate $971,000 and issue $900,000 in bonds for the new facility, which would be built on Route 71. The new town hall would have town meeting rooms, a community room for up to 300 people, and an emergency shelter. It would replace a cramped wooden structure on Route 190 that no longer meets building codes.

The referendum will be held from noon to 8 p.m. at the Union School. Absentee ballots can be obtained from the town clerk's office today from 9 a.m. to noon and from 1 to 3 p.m., and on Thursday, Saturday and Tuesday from 9 a.m. to noon.